# spinnen
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɪnə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: spin‧nen
* Rhymes: -ɪnən

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spinnen, from Old Dutch *spinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną.

#### Verb

spinnen
* to spin: make yarn by twisting and winding fibres together

##### Derived terms

* aanspinnen
* bespinnen
* verspinnen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: spin
* Jersey Dutch: spänne
* Negerhollands: spin

#### Verb

spinnen
* to purr
* to tell stories, fib, lie
* to whirr

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

spinnen
* plural of spin

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German spinnen, from Old High German spinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan.
Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, English spin, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃpɪnən/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪnən

### Verb

spinnen (class 3 strong or weak, third-person singular present spinnt, past tense spann or (also) sponn or (colloquial) spinnte, past participle gesponnen or (colloquial) gespinnt, past subjunctive spänne or spönne, auxiliary haben)
* (transitive or intransitive) to spin (a thread, a web, a cocoon, etc.)
** 1910, Karl May, Mein Leben und Streben‎:Die Mutter meiner Mutter scheuerte für die Leute und spann Watte.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (transitive, figuratively) to develop, extend (a thought, story, etc.)
* (transitive, thus especially) to exaggerate (an event), to fabricate (something untrue)
* (intransitive, informal) to act or talk strangely, foolishly, (of a machine also) to malfunction
* (intransitive, informal) to be crazy, to freak out
* (intransitive, regional, of a cat) to purr
    Synonym: (the normal word) schnurren

#### Usage notes

* The verb is generally strong. The prescribed preterite is spann, but sponn (which avoids the homonymy with spannen) is widely attestable in edited sources.
* The weak forms spinnte, gespinnt are heard alternatively in the informal senses “be crazy, act strangely”. (The preterite spinnte is rarely met with also in other senses.)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Colloquial. $^2$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
$^1$Colloquial.

#### Derived terms

* abspinnen
* ausspinnen
* ausspinnen
* durchspinnen
* einspinnen
* entspinnen
* erspinnen
* herumspinnen
* rumspinnen
* Seemannsgarn spinnen
* Spinne
* Spinnen
* Spinner
* Spinnerei
* Spinnerin
* Spinnmilbe
* Spinnrad
* überspinnen
* umspinnen
* verspinnen
* weiterspinnen
* zusammenspinnen

#### Related terms

* Spinne
* Spinner

### Further reading

* “spinnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “spinnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “spinnen” in Duden online
* “spinnen” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *spinnan.

### Verb

spinnen
* to spin, to make yarn by twisting and winding fibres together
* to spin (web, silk etc.)

#### Descendants

* Dutch: spinnen
* Limburgish: spinne

### Further reading

* “spinnen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spinnen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* spynnen, spynne, spinne, spynen, spenen, spynnyn, spyn

### Etymology

From Old English spinnan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspinən/

### Verb

spinnen
* To spin or convert fibre into yarn.
** 1381 June 12, John Ball, Sermon at Blackheath:Whan Adam dalf, and Eve span; / Wo was thanne a gentilman?When Adam delved and Eve spun; / Who was a nobleman then?
* To make fabric or fabric garments out of fibre.
* To make a spiderweb or cobweb.
* To go in a hurry; to sprint.
* To select or decide an individual's fate.
* (rare) To flow forth with haste.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) spinnen, spinne | (to) spinnen, spinne |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | spinne | span |
| 2nd-person singular | spinnest | spunne, spanne, span |
| 3rd-person singular | spinneth | span |
| subjunctive singular | spinne | spunne$^1$, spanne$^1$ |
| imperative singular | spinne | — |
| plural$^2$ | spinnen, spinne | spunnen, spunne, spannen, spanne |
| imperative plural | spinneth, spinne | — |
| participles | spinnynge, spinnende | spunnen, spunne |
$^1$Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Derived terms

* spynnere
* spynnestere
* spynnynge

#### Descendants

* English: spin
* Scots: spin

#### References

* “spinnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.

## West Frisian
### Noun

spinnen
* plural of spin